voncookie | February 21, 2010
Apolo Ohno won bronze to become the most decorated Winter Olympian tonight. Go Apolo. Dinner with maria callas the other night was *so* much fun… I really do need to socialize more. I’ve turned into an (almost) total recluse. Is no good. TooBeaut is on his way back from a massive road trip through the [...]
voncookie | December 27, 2009
9:45 a.m. Been up for about an hour. Today really is the only “down day” of the entire convention– a day for me to practice my hobnobbing skills for the rest of the convention, a day for me to come up with an answer to the question: “So, tell us about your dissertation?” and “Why [...]
voncookie | January 1, 2008
I’m in the Chicago airport, and I’m refusing to cop to the fact that it’s snowing pretty bad right now and that my flight could be delayed because of this. I’ve been crying for several hours now—not because of the snow, but because my pink 30-Euro splurge bag ripped the other day, and even though [...]
voncookie | December 30, 2007
Today everyone is leaving, the lobby here at Massive Ginormous Hotel is crammed with geeks and their suitcases, both very tweedy. I’ve slipped off my I.D. badge, and am now returning to my place as one of the masses, all set to find some chi-chi place for New Year’s festivities tomorrow. To recap: yesterday at [...]
voncookie | December 28, 2007
Talking with my cousin on the phone, I was saying how I didn’t feel like going a-conferencing today, that I just wanted to stay in the room and work on the Diss. I asked her, Is that bad? To want to stay in and work on my dissertation even though I’m here at the conference? [...]
voncookie | December 28, 2007
This hotel is just crammed with humanists—it’s very disconcerting, and yet kind of wonderful. It’s sort of like being with your extended family, and you’re all, of course, competing over a game of horseshoes, only here the competition is for jobs, recognition, peer evaluation… Some game of horseshoes this is! I had an interesting day [...]
voncookie | December 27, 2007
It has begun, the MLA. I got here yesterday, as you know, and it was relatively calm, not too many people milling about. Today it is Geek-Chic Central here at the Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Hyatt Regency, and the Fairmont Hotel. You can tell an MLA-attendee from a mile away… perhaps it’s the effete eyewear… [...]
voncookie | December 26, 2007
It’s 4:30 a.m., I’m up, I’m up!!! *Please* stop the voices playing “Reveille” in my head! (And please get “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” out of there, while you’re at it.) I’m off to the MLA, to the wintry steppes of Chicago, where it is indeed supposed to snow today. What’s more troublesome than [...]
